Illustration: Stephen Collins for the Guardian
Illustration: Stephen Collins for the Guardian
Patrick Stewart on the NSA scandal
I should have never switched to Verizon. #NSA twitter.com/SirPatStew/sta…
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) June 7, 2013
In case you missed it, this is what he’s talking about.
Vitamin supplements are good for you, right? Wrong, says a new...
Vitamin supplements are good for you, right? Wrong, says a new book – they're a multibillion-pound con and in high doses can increase your risk of heart disease and cancer
Photograph: Liz McBurney for the Guardian
Bilderberg: is a CCTV camera on your head the best protest...
Bilderberg: is a CCTV camera on your head the best protest costume ever? Stuart Heritage looks at the other candidates.
Photographs: Oli Scarff, Leon Neal, Steve Morgan / Greenpeace
Oh hai! The Queen arrives at the new BBC Broadcasting House in...
Oh hai!
The Queen arrives at the new BBC Broadcasting House in London to officially open it, and prompty appears in the background of the BBC news channel
From picture desk: live, our team's pick of the most compelling images of the day.
'The freaky Dark Side of the Moon-style design looks like...
'The freaky Dark Side of the Moon-style design looks like something a Bond villain would use – but it does sum up the surveillance program pretty neatly'
Tim Dowling on the dubious logo of the "$20m spy initiative that no one is meant to know about"
Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of...
Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple. Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007
Read more on the Guardian exclusive: http://gu.com/p/3gd58/tw
The Brazilian health ministry has had to drop a sexual-health...
The Brazilian health ministry has had to drop a sexual-health awareness campaign with the tagline 'I'm happy being a prostitute'. But it's hardly the first STD awareness campaign to stray into the realm of the daft. We take a look at some of the silliest sexual health warnings from the second world war
Photographs: National Library of Medicine
Sungur is a reluctant figurehead. On Wednesday, she declined to...
Sungur is a reluctant figurehead. On Wednesday, she declined to discuss last Tuesday's drama and her sudden fame as the "lady in the red dress". In brief remarks last week to the Turkish media she pointed out that she was a tiny part of a huge grassroots movement. "A lot of people no different from me were out protecting the park, defending their rights, defending democracy," she said. "They also got gassed."
Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters
You think Elton John dresses to excess? Pah. From Tom Wolfe in...
You think Elton John dresses to excess? Pah. From Tom Wolfe in spats to Carmen Miranda's fruity headgear, via Little Richard, Liberace and Prince, here are 10 true titans of extravagance
Photographs: L Busacca/WireImag, Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives
Verizon order: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily
Verizon order: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily:Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administration
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
The youngest-ever architect to design a summer pavilion for the...
The youngest-ever architect to design a summer pavilion for the Serpentine, Sou Fujimoto plays with the distinction between inside and outside space and once based a house on a climbing frame. He has delivered a cloud-shaped structure made of fine steel latticework that people can move in and out of at will.
Here's a selection of images of the design.
Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
A woman uses a tablet computer as she sits in a tricycle taxi at...
A woman uses a tablet computer as she sits in a tricycle taxi at an road intersection during rainfall in Beijing. More than two-thirds of Beijing's annual rainfall happens in June to August, breaking the city's otherwise dry and arid climate.
Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
A visitor looks at one of six new tapestries by Turner Prize...
A visitor looks at one of six new tapestries by Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry RA.
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Take a look at some of the the much-reworked drafts for...
Take a look at some of the the much-reworked drafts for Beckett's first major novel, which show his extensive revisions as well as doodles of James Joyce, Charlie Chaplin – and himself
Photograph: Sotheby's
Twitter image mocking Chinese censorship of Tiananmen Square,...
Twitter image mocking Chinese censorship of Tiananmen Square, adapted from AP's 1989 photograph (the search term 'Big Yellow Duck' is banned), as internet search terms related to
Tiananmen Square were clamped down by the government
Photograph:
Cute animal picture of the day. A baby chimp is seen at a zoo in...
Cute animal picture of the day. A baby chimp is seen at a zoo in Dalian, China.
Taken from picture desk: live, which, alongside cute chimps, also features images from Queen Elizabeth II's coronation anniversary celebrations, as well as the latest from the Turkey protests.
Photograph: HAP/Quirky China News/Rex Feat
Canadian photographer Todd McLellan pan>makes visible the...
Canadian photographer Todd McLellan pan>makes visible the inner workings of everyday products
by dismantling, carefully arranging the components and photographing them. His book, Things Come Apart, presents a unique view of items such as chainsaws and iPods, transforming ordinary objects into works of art
Photographs: dsonTodd McLellan/Thames & Hu
Hebei Province, China: An alpaca gets a summer haircut at the...
Hebei Province, China: An alpaca gets a summer haircut at the zoo.
Photograph:
A protester throws a cobblestone at police during a...
A protester throws a cobblestone at police during a demonstration against same-sex marriage in Paris. Police say that the protest drew about 150,000 people. From the Observer's 20 photographs of the week
Photograph: Etienne Laurent/EPA
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